messuages'
wɪdʒ noun Law.
a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, misreading (n taken as u) of Old French mesnage ménage
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, misreading (n taken as u) of Old French mesnage ménage
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| —n | |
| property law a dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage, and the adjacent land appropriated to its use | |
| [C14: from Norman French: household, perhaps through misspelling of Old French mesnage | |
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Messuages'
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Word Origin & History
messuage
legal term for "dwelling," late 14c., from Anglo-L. (late 13c.), from Anglo-Fr. messuage, which probably is a clerical error for mesnage (see menage). Originally the portion of land set aside for a dwelling-house and outbuildings, whether occupied by them or not; later chiefly
in ref. to the house and buildings and the attached land.
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